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While Java founder James Gosling has campaigned for Oracle to place Java under the jurisdiction of an independent foundation, Oracle is declining to comment at all on the notion. Asked about Gosling’s efforts during a press question-and-answer session at the Oracle OpenWorld conference Tuesday in San Francisco, Oracle’s Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of product [...]

Rhomobile will announce Wednesday version 2.0 of its development-as-a-service platform for building smartphone applications. RhoHub 2.0 is a SaaS platform enabling online development of native applications for Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Google Android phones. RhoHub applications can be hosted via Heroku hosting infrastructure. Ruby and HTML development are supported on RhoHub, which [...]

The Motorola Droid 2 smartphone Droid 2, an Android smartphone, which Verizon Wireless put on sale on Thursday, is a prime example of how major U.S. wireless carriers are trying to broaden the appeal of smartphones to business users and consumers alike by offering devices that have both touchscreens and physical keyboards. For its part, [...]

Planning to jailbreak your Apple iPhone? You may want to think twice — or at least wait until Apple patches a security hole that lets remote attackers take control of a jailbroken device. In other news: Google waved good-bye to Wave, its less-than-hugely-popular social networking collaboration tool; RIM debuted a new touchscreen BlackBerry just in [...]

RIM revealed the BlackBerry Torch 9800 this week with much fanfare, but with mixed reviews and a lukewarm reception. The launch of the BlackBerry Torch seems déjà vu — reminiscent of the hype and reception of the Palm Pre which ultimately turned out to be Palm’s swan song. The Torch is supposed to catapult the [...]

On Wednesday afternoon Apple invited several journalists, including one from Macworld, to its Cupertino campus on Friday for a “press conference about iPhone 4.” Presumably the company will use the event to publicly address all the controversy swirling around this product, most notably reports of antenna interference issues. Discussion of iPhone 4 reception issues kicked [...]

Android is gaining on all the major smartphone platforms in the U.S., though it was only the fourth-most-used mobile operating system in May, market data firm comScore reported on Thursday. The market share of Google’s open-source OS grew to 13 percent of all U.S. smartphone users in May, from just 9 percent in February, according [...]

Google’s Android platform, like the Apple iPhone before it, has been a hit with consumers but has only been recently gotten serious about adding enterprise features. The official launch this week of the Android 2.2 (a.k.a., “Froyo”) platform has been Google’s most significant step toward making Android enterprise-friendly yet, however. [ A number of handy [...]

Rhomobile is shipping on Tuesday version 2.0 of its Rhodes framework for developing native smartphone applications, which extends Apple iPhone native mapping capabilities to other devices. Rhodes 2.0 also offers accommodations for back-end applications via a metadata  framework. Rhomobile also is offering free licensing. But a previously planned capability for bidirectional streaming of multimedia content [...]

As part of Monday’s iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. Apple released iOS 4 for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, and the second- and third-generation iPod Touch on Monday shortly after 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT. [ Stay up on tech news [...]